Sunday, February 16

8:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Membrane Transport in Fatty Acid Synthesis and ObesityAna Pajor, University of California, San Diego, Co-ChairDa-Neng Wang, New York University School of Medicine, Co-ChairStephen Helfand, Brown UniversityGerald Shulman, Yale University

New and NotableRobert Nakamoto, University of Virginia Health Science Center, ChairBlake Wiedenheft, Montana State UniversityHao Wu, Harvard Medical SchoolSuliana Manley, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, SwitzerlandBasuthkar Rao, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IndiaElizabeth Chen, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineAnne Kenworthy, Vanderbilt University School of MedicineErhu Cao, University of California, San Francisco

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Cellular Stress, Protein Folding, and DiseaseJudy Kim, University of California, San Diego, Co-ChairConner Sandefur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Co-ChairSantiago Schnell, University of MichiganNikolay Dokholyan, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillRichard Morimoto, Northwestern University

Force Sensing in MuscleGabrielle Piazzesi, University of Florence, Italy, Co-ChairMathias Gautel, King's College London, United Kingdom, Co-ChairMichael Regnier, University of WashingtonKenneth Campbell, University of Kentucky

Stochasticity in Cellular ProcessesRachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, Canada, Co-ChairNathalie Questembert-Balaban, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Co-ChairStanislas Leibler, Rockefeller UniversityElizabeth Read, University of California, Irvine

Regulation of Cytoskeletal MotorsKazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Co-ChairMarileen Dogterom, AMOLF, The Netherlands, Co-ChairStanley Burgess, University of Leeds, United KingdomYale E. Goldman, University of Pennsylvania

Applications of Quantum Mechanics to Biophysical ProblemsQiang Cui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-ChairSharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Co-ChairKenneth Merz, Michigan State UniversityUrsula Rothlisberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Wednesday, February 19

8:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Myosin Motors in Vitro and in CellsMichelle Peckham, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Co-ChairMargaret Titus, University of Minnesota, Co-ChairLaurent Blanchoin, University of Grenoble, FranceJan Faix, Hannover Medical School, Germany

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Structures of Membrane FusionDavid Weliky, Michigan State University, Co-ChairErica Ollmann Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute, Co-ChairPeter Kasson, University of VirginiaLukas Tamm, University of Virginia